Advice on not being sarcastic plus other things

[Losty]

Tell them not to do this.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/video-sh...oncussion/

Video shows Brooklyn teacher punching autistic boy hard enough to give him a concussion

How very helpful...

[Napoléon]

I don't know how to tell adults to keep their hands to themselves without sounding like a sarcastic patronizing asshole. Halp.

Highlight the absurdity by mentioning you don't want to come across as a sarcastic patronizing asshole, it'll probably get most of them on your side. And the ones that don't probably need to be patronised.

[ignoramus]

Bring back the strap I say!

For the parents I mean...

[Losty]

I don't know how to tell adults to keep their hands to themselves without sounding like a sarcastic patronizing asshole. Halp.

Highlight the absurdity by mentioning you don't want to come across as a sarcastic patronizing asshole, it'll probably get most of them on your side. And the ones that don't probably need to be patronised.

I did something like this. I said I felt stupid trying to tell them how to do their jobs, so I'd rather if they tell me how they do their jobs and then maybe we could all brainstorm ways to make sure no one gets hurt.

They seemed happy with that in every group. It was a good day. After hearing from all the teachers and parapros in behavioral classes, I am not at all I pleased that I never got into a job like that.

[Losty]

Bring back the strap I say!

For the parents I mean...

Bring the strap for Losty she's a bad girl

[ignoramus]

You're such a shameless harlot!   

[Joods]

Being the mom of a special needs kid, I have worked closely with my daughter's school to ensure that she is safe. However, things happened and I jumped on it right quick and the school realized that they should have taken better action against the teacher's aid, who was allowed to do what she did.

Essentially, when my daughter was in the first grade, she was literally shoved up a short flight of steps outside the school, by an aid. The video cameras caught it, but I was not informed of the incident until I questioned the teacher as to why my child came home with scrape marks on the palms of her hands and the tops of her feet. When I pressed on about it, because my daughter does not go up and down steps quickly and takes them very slowly, I finally said that if the didn't investigate the issue, I would be calling an emergency IEP meeting.

They found the incident on the video tape at school and when they told me what happened, I said that that aid was to be immediately removed from being around my child. They fired that aid and got one that stayed with my daughter for the next six years. The aid they fired was hired on at the special needs camp that my daughter attended that summer. I was a volunteer parent there and witnessed that same aid getting in a childs face, yelling at him. She had him cowering in the corner. There were at least six other adults there and no one did anything. I walked into the directors office and told him about what just happened as well as what happened with my daughter a few months prior. She was fired.

What pisses me off is that if a person is going to get into a situation where they are working with special needs children, they have to understand that these kids are not your normal kid. They might have behavioral issues. They might have mental or physical limitations. If an adult cannot comprehend the reason WHY the child is placed in a special class to begin with, perhaps they should not be allowed to work around those type of kids. If their moral character is such that they would lose patience easily with a child, then they need to find another career path.

If I have to, according to PA law, have good moral character in order to obtain my cosmetologist license, just to be able to cut hair, then so should the people who work closely with children who require extra attention in school. You can spend all the money you want on education, to get a degree, but if your moral character shows what a piece of shit you are, then you need to find a solitary job where you can't mentally or physically harm someone else.

[Hmmm?]

Being the mom of a special needs kid...  perhaps they should not be allowed to work around those type of kids. If their moral character is such that they would lose patience easily with a child, then they need to find another career path.

Amen, there are all kinds of jobs out there, we should choose one we're good at.  Not everyone is cut out for taking care of special needs children in a school or elderly in a nursing home.  Patience is not everyone's strong suit and in order to work in this field it's a must!

[Losty]

I agree Judi. I could never do that job. I don't have a bad temper or anything, I would never hurt a child regardless, I just don't think I could handle the stress of a job like that.

[Aroura]

Edited because my reply was totally off topic, sorry.

As to Losty's thing, I don't know what to tell you. You would know these people and the appropriate things to say much better than I would.